Chavez Thugs Block Opposition Candidate Capriles From Registering in Presidential Race

"Makes sense, right after their revered "leader" has memorial, riots break out. "Dear Leader" was only a riot stopgap. Probably told them not to riot until after all the honors and the nice things that were said about him were done. Ah, yes, the phony and orchestrated "spontaneous demonstrations" so popular in communist countries.  Kinda like the black panthers did in the
2008 elections. Hussein must have sent his campaign team down there to help.  Did SEIU bus their people there too?  I'm sure the United Nations election squad will be right on top of this. And Jimma Carter will be asking to observe the election process too right? Third World "democracy" at its finest. They seem very serious about keeping their poverty. Good for them. Let them implode under the weight of their unsustainable welfare state, and we will be right behind them. Take a good look people, this is Hussein's future for America. Union thugs, Obamabots, Occupy Wall Streeter's, Black Panthers taking to the streets, shutting down the opposition. Entitlement whores insuring the right to live off the sweat of others. Somewhere on the golf course Hussein is smiling. Why? Because this could be coming to the US in 2016." MC


Chavistas rallied outside the national election board today.

Supporters of Venezuela’s acting President Nicolas Maduro attend a rally outside the national election board, after Maduro registered as a candidate for president in the April 14 election, in Caracas, March 11, 2013. Presidential candidates Maduro and Henrique Capriles have begun Venezuela’s election race with scathing personal attacks even as mourners still file past the late Hugo Chavez’s corpse. (REUTERS/Tomas Bravo)
Opposition candidate Henrique Capriles tried to register to run for president today but was blocked from entering the election board by Chavez-Maduro supporters.
Capriles will now be forced to ask a court to allow him to run in this month’s race. Venezuela set its first post-Chavez election for April 14.
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The Washington Post has more.

Thousands of cheering, crying admirers accompanied President Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor Monday as he registered to be a candidate to replace the dead leader, while forcing the main opposition candidate to delay his entry into the race.
The massive crowd thronged acting President Nicolas Maduro and blocked opposition candidate Henrique Capriles from registering for the April 14 vote by the 2 p.m. deadline.